Australia · New South Wales · Malabar, Sydney
Long Bay Correctional Complex
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Historic Sydney facility with multiple discrete prisons on one campus. Includes the Long Bay Hospital, the state's main forensic-psychiatric inmate hospital.
Capacity
1,300
Current population
1,280
Occupancy
98%
Year opened
1909
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Corrective Services NSW
Population held
male
Opened
1909
Region
New South Wales
Security level
Mixed
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
Multi-unit campus; conditions vary substantially between security tiers.
Visiting
Booked online via Corrective Services NSW. Photo ID and pre-approval required.
Mailing
Inmate Name & MIN, Long Bay Correctional Complex, 1300 Anzac Parade, Malabar NSW 2036, Australia.
Practical info
Public transport: 396 or 391 bus from Central Station.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
Ivan Milat (deceased 2019), Brett Cowan, various NSW high-profile inmates.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 5/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · In-custody-death signal in sources
Compared to other facilities in Australia
231 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in Australia.
Data completeness
100%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Corrective Services NSW
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.